Wolves of Roma

Prince of Roma- Chapter 11

Chapter 11
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"Hey, long time no see" Amy greeted sitting next to Evelyn.

Evelyn had come to her favorite spot by the river, to calm her nerves for the impending dinner at her house with her parents and Max. Worst of all, her mother did not know yet, the identity of her mate. With everything happening she did not have the time to go about it and her mother had given her the space to get acquainted with her mate without additional pressure of parental intervention. Jeff had officially put an end to that yesterday, when he caught her and Max on their porch kissing.

He had invited...no...rather demanded Max to show up for Dinner tonight, in a few hours as a matter of fact. Her nerves frayed at the impending dinner...aka... disaster waiting to happen, she sought out some refuge. A refuge which was clearly over.

"Hey, I know, been a while" Evelyn responded. Between school, training & Max, she rarely had time to do anything else. Amy was one of her friends, one of very few she had and Amy and Evelyn had been working in the hotel when Max claimed her and after that with her shifting, training and mate business she did not have the time for socializing.

"How is it going?" Amy asked sitting down on the bench next to her.

"Good" Evelyn nodded.

"Nice to hear that" Amy responded.

A moment of silence stretched between them.

"Heard your mate is back?" Amy asked in confirmation already knowing the answer but trying to break the silence.

"Yes" Evelyn said and added "Yes, he is."

"How is that going with you? The whole mate business?" Amy asked curious. She knew how Evelyn felt about the whole mate thing. Fate it seems wasn't without a sense of irony.

"Good. I...I have no clue what I am doing" Evelyn confessed. She was going with the flow, sometimes she was lost. Did she like Max? She sure did. Was she attracted to him? Of course she was! Who wouldn't be? But, how much of these feelings were influenced by the mate bond. She had no idea! And there was one more thing, the most important thing, his last name was Roma. She shuddered involuntarily, she kept burying that thought every time it surfaced, taking Max's advice to take one day at a time. But she was not ready for the expectations that came with that name, she probably never would and it scared the daylights out of her.

"Of all the people in the world, you had to go find yourself a mate" Amy said with ironic smile. Amy harbored a dream of finding a mate, so did many girls in the pack and the only girl around who was not really interested ends up with one.

"I sometimes don't believe it myself" Evelyn whispered.

"Do you know you are the envy of every girl in the pack right now?" Amy asked Evelyn.

"I am?" Evelyn wondered out loud.

"How can you not be? You found a mate...romantic stuff, while you might not see it that way, most of us do and judging by it you landed yourself a pretty influential one." Amy voiced.

"Influential?" Evy asked, her heart beat spiking. They couldn't know, could they? It was supposed to be a secret.

"People are not blind Evelyn" Amy gently admonished "You hang out with that Alex and his brother is your personal trainer and there is a matter of your guards."

"Alex is my friend! And Adrian is helping me out in training and there are no guards!" Evelyn defended.

"Look to your left, there" Amy pointed to two Roma wolves sitting out there, far from them but in line of sight.